The Times - Cryptic - January 9 2019 Crossword Puzzle Answer

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27243
Clues	Answers
A diet not designed as a remedy	ANTIDOTE
Close to nothing in charity that’s opening	ALMOST
Cold dish using incomplete vessels (below and above water)	SUSHI
Complaint caused by command from detective?	DISORDER
Crack from unknown imbecile	GOOFY
Crop top with short dart in front	HARVEST
Desirable quality in grand name of literary siblings	SITWELL
Gentle champion’s stopping stock conflicts	wars of the roses
Heel’s neighbour caused anger after undressing	ANKLE
I caught summer in Paris on a refresher	ice tea
Jazzy music involving musical sense is promising	SWEARING
Line that stops tongue moving, twisted in knots?	SHOELACE
Man in promise to pay on time shows resolve	iron out
Marshal calm when changing side repeatedly	ARRAY
Men concerned with later life backing part of Mediterranean diet?	OREGANO
Most like The Merry Widow being terribly stagey	GAYEST
Oppressive old tyrant leading America	ONEROUS
Outlaw’s unfeeling ring captures northbound travellers	DESPERADO
Peace group requests soldiers possibly to protect brief retreat in quarrel	unpleasantness
Principal substituting old boy for a family man	MOBSTER
Reason males are excluded from rummage around	ARGUE
Rolling fat?	spare tyre
Short cannon’s middle-of-the-road rating	MORTAR
Something ideal for jamming broadcast, in short	CURRANT
Theatrical set, scary in play	ACTRESSY
Trader’s tip diluted small change	TWEAK
Trivial problem to fall between aristocrat and monarch	no-brainer
Unaware of past uprising as some of America is, en masse	AMNESIAC
Vegetable: wrap up portion	SHALLOT
Watched and heard the writer with no hair	EYEBALLED
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1262
Clues	Answers
£1000? That’s good money in Soweto	GRAND
Be sure about Her Majesty wearing this?	BERET
Bluebeard occasionally has lascivious look	LEER
Dad grabbing an old woman’s hat	PANAMA
Diverts less than half of hippopotamuses	AMUSES
Fight for breath when restrained by medic	GASP
Freedom fighter wounded in Sparta	PARTISAN
French in agreement, making earnest request	ENTREATY
Get a move on after bungling set point	step on it
Girlie mag out of place on Papa’s religious trip	PILGRIMAGE
Italian gent introducing knight to drunken orgies	SIGNORE
North African needing accommodation on way up	MOOR
Pain for which Swansea chemist has the answer	ACHE
Painter has returned with article of desert origin	SAHARAN
Panic after head resigns? It’s a mistake	ERROR
Paper headgear jester wears?	FOOLSCAP
Part of joint actually undamaged	INTACT
Polish food? Avoid the starter	RUB
Rotten old kipper. Have it for lunch?	pork pie
Scornful of detective inspector’s letter	DISMISSIVE
Small pistol socialist turned on lookalike	DERRINGER
Take action against this woman	SUE
They say wickedness excited Jewish congregation	SYNAGOGUE
Thieves, and the places they end up in?	NICKS
Thug crossing river channel	TROUGH
Without a cap on … or a lot else?	TOPLESS